J. Buentello Benavides

Biography

J Buentello Benavides (Ph.D., Texas Tech University) is a writer, teacher, editor, and translator. Her prose and translations have appeared in The Florida Review, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She is a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence alumna, and among her other awards, her writing has been named finalist for the Newfound Prose Prize, finalist for The Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Recently, her short story manuscript titled Border Girls placed second for the Everett Southwest Literary Award which was selected by National Book Award Finalist, Brandon Hobson. Her research interests include contemporary American prose, translation theory and praxis, Chicana feminist theory, and borderland narratives.